Leading executives, managers, and experts from small and midsize businesses and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that SMBs face.
Virtualization is steadily finding a place within small and midsize companies, but it's still mysterious to some. For example, did you know virtualization has environmental benefits? Yes, going virtual means going green!
Nick van der Zweep, the director of virtualization and product management for HP Insight Software, explains what virtualization is, what sort of benefits -- including ROI -- smaller businesses can get from virtualization, and even the potential downsides.
van der Zweep: There is a software cost, but now vendors are evolving, especially in the storage and server virtualization space. The types of things people are looking for are: How do I reduce my energy consumption? How can I make better use of the current capacity that I have? The average utilization for resources is 5%, 10%, maybe 15%. You've got excess infrastructure if you look at it that way.
People are also looking for better service levels. For example, IDC is expecting 52% less infrastructure costs by driving up utilization costs of its servers, storage, and such.
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